Curious Marmot

When Josh (joshlewis) and I were at the summit of Mt. Pugh, a curious marmot crawled out from under a rock a few feet away, having had no apparent interactions with humans before. It looked at us with fascination, before crawling back into its hole again. Here is another picture of this same marmot, sticking only its head out of its rock.

I think that the only reason this marmot allowed me to get so close to it was because it had never seen a human before. We saw another marmot at a lower (and easier to reach) elevation that seemed quite cautious of us.